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Charles comes upon Sarah sleeping in the Undercliff, and he’s examining her face when she wakens. They stare at each other until Charles apologizes and hurries away, wishing too late that he had asked which path to take. In this passage, Fowles makes the very bold claim that those moments in which Charles and Sarah stare at each other and feel attracted to each other, despite their society forbidding it, essentially undermine the ethos of an entire era; or at least that in those moments, Victorian morality forever loses its grip on these two characters.
This meeting between Charles and…